Private space company Stoke announces a new design for a rocket engine that could make the Nova launcher's second stage ...

In preparation for its eighth Starship launch, SpaceX is finishing up preflight shakedowns for the megarocket's first stage, ...

Russia's state-owned Rosatom announced a prototype plasma engine which could speed up travel to other planets.

Ideal for propelling tiny satellites, the lightweight devices could be produced on board a spacecraft and cost much less than ...

Scientists at Rosatom have unveiled a plasma electric rocket engine that is claimed to be capable of propelling spacecraft to ...

By revealing a massive radio jet in the early universe, J1601+3102 offers a rare snapshot of early quasar activity.

They are also simply too slow for deep space travel. According to NASA’s estimates, spacecraft using existing chemical rocket engines will take a minimum of six to seven months to reach Mars.

A SpaceX test flight has ended in failure after an upgraded Starship rocket exploded over the Atlantic ... SpaceX said the vehicle’s six engines appeared to shut down one by one, with initial data ...

Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical rockets. To be fair, that's nothing to sneer at. Chemical engines put the first satellite into space, the first man on ...

The tests involved two 120-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engines and one 18-tonne liquid oxygen-kerosene rocket engine. The institute noted that this marks a major advancement in the country ...

Another point of contention is the deluge system, which creates thousands of gallons of toxic wastewater to cool launch pads and rocket engines after testing. While the EPA and the Texas ...